Word: rectangularity
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...village elders, dressed in black gowns over white robes, advanced in greeting, preceded by the ly-truong, or village chief. We sat around a rectangular table and drank hot tea and tepid beer. A sharp-nosed, black-eyed young man called Nguyen Van Tin explained about the Anti-Communist Youth League, which he had founded last fall...
...usual, was resting on a square of concerto. However, in a burst of planning, Cambridge added more concrete to the sides of the island making it into a circle. Last night, while freshmen cringed in their rooms, a team of drillers blasted the island back into its original rectangular form...
...shop. As production boss, Harvey Pokrass finally built an assembly line that could turn out a complete set every 40 seconds, set up a three-month training course for new workers. Harvey also kept Tele King ahead technically by being among the first to switch production to rectangular-tube sets and by developing cheaper cabinets. Remembering the PT-boat hulls molded from plywood, he got a PT-boat maker to turn out for Tele King "seamless" cabinets whose top and sides are molded from one piece of mahogany plywood...
Nobody even thought it strange that Jack Grant made a trip back to the car to bring a heavy third suitcase for Mrs. Grant to take on the plane. It was his own rectangular yellow rawhide bag. Only he knew that it was crammed with an ingenious time-bomb lash-up-an alarm clock, a bundle of dry cells, a packet of matches and a folded rubber inner tube filled with gasoline. The clock was set for 2:30 p.m., when United Airlines' flight 258 would be about halfway to San Diego...
Just after dinner one evening last week, balding, spectacled President Victor Raymond Edman of Illinois' Wheaton College rose to begin a regular session of the Evangelistic Week that traditionally begins each term. Stepping up to the microphones in the brightly lit, rectangular auditorium of Pierce Memorial Chapel, he asked if any student would "like to give a word of testimony or praise on the blessings of this week...